SUMMARY

• IT Professional with 9+ years of experience in installation, configuration, and administration of Linux 3,4,5,6 /AWS Cloud / Open Stack Cloud and Solaris 8,9,19 and VMware VCP 4,5 and IBM AIX.
• Experience on Puppet, Chef and Bash/Shell Scripting.
• Good Working experience on AWS/OpenStack Cloud and Hadoop Administration.
• Excellent in patches and packages installation.
• Experience on Proxy server configuration (SQID).
• Installed, configured and maintained multiple Red Hat Satellite Servers, and custom repositories.
• Utilized other AWS Cloud Computing platforms and its many dimensions of scalability including but notlimited to: VPC, EC2, ELB, IAM, SQS, S3, auto scaling architectures, using EBS under high I/O.Requirements, custom monitoring metrics/analysis/alarms via Cloud Watch, the AWS CLI, to meet client's needs and project requirements.
• Experience in implementing High Availability Clusters using VERITAS Clustering, Redhat Cluster Server.
• Configuration of NIS, NFS, SAMBA, SENDMAIL, APACHE SERVICES on Linux & UNIX Environment.
• Experience in VERITAS Volume Manager, configuration and maintenance VERITAS File System.
• Experience in Logical Volume Manager for creation of Volume groups / Logical Volumes and File systems in UNIX environment.
• Advanced knowledge and skills in Linux Operating System, High Availability/Clustering, System Backup/Restore, Kickstart and Logical Volume Manager software products.
• Excellent in Configuring and Administering NFS, SMTP, DHCP, samba in heterogeneous environment.
• Expertise in installation, configuration, administration, troubleshooting, tuning, security, backup, recovery and upgrades of Redhat Linux 3/4/5.
• Experienced in leading the efforts of Deployment and Build Engineers for Linux Environment.
• Experience in Binding Luns, Naming, and resizing, Unbinding LUNs and configured in power path.
• Expert in Datacenter Operations including hardware, software setup monitoring, troubleshooting on a 24 x 7 basis with Tivoli monitoring tool and Remedy Ticketing Systems.
• Expertise in managing application tools Jump Start, Solstice Disk Suite, and SVM.
• Configuring & Troubleshooting NFS Servers and Clients, in UNIX Environment.
• Implementation of RAID levels like 0, 1, 0+1, 5 using VERITAS Volume Manager.
• Good exposure to Network Storage Solutions like DAS, NAS and SAN.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Linux: 4,5 and 6, Solaris 8/9/10 and IBM AIX, AWS Cloud (VPC, EC2, ELB, IAM, SQS, S3, auto scaling), Hadoop Administration, vxvm, svm, VERITAS clusters, Redhat clusters, NetBackup

Infrastructure Hardware: HP Blade servers, HP ProLiant servers and Other HP hardware Cisco UCS, DELL Power Edge servers, Dell Laptops and Desktops.

OS: UNIX/AIX, Windows 2000/03/NT4.0, Wintel Sun Solaris, HP - UX. MAC8.1/9/10 & OS2

Hardware: HP, DELL, IBM, PSeries, SUN Enterprise.

Servers: Web Sphere Application Server 3.5/4.0, Netscape/iPlanet Server, MQSeries, Web Logic Server, IBM HTTP Server, HTML, DHTML, XML, Java Script, JSP, Servlets, EJB, Apache 2.2, Tomcat 5.5, Active MQ

Networking: TCP/IP, RPC, UDP, NIS, NFS, DNS, DHCP, Cisco Routers/Switches, LAN.

Languages: UNIX Shell Programming (ksh, csh, sh), Verilog HDL, Matlab with toolboxes, SQL.

Applications: Samba, Tivoli (TSM), VERITAS Volume Manager.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Senior Cloud Administrator

Confidential, NY

Responsibilities:

• Troubleshooting all kinds of UNIX problems and assisting users.
• Operated as 24 hour on-call escalation point for all project effecting problems related to all migration efforts. Anticipated obstacles and recommended solution options.
• Focused on client values and satisfaction while balancing corporate objectives, feasibility and scalability of solutions.
• Assisted with technical and stakeholder requirements and overall project plan including cost, scope, portability, compatibility and usability.
• Prepared documentation and provided training for offshore resource in VMware.
• Analyze and Evaluate Existing Architecture at Customer On Premise Datacenters and Design, Configure and migrate complex Network architectures toAWSPublic Cloud.
• Role of a Trusted Advisor in implementing the best solutions in Amazon Cloud.
• Key member of a Managed Services team that installs, configures and maintains Softwares, Databases and Web applications.
• Frequent interaction with customers to assist in Setup of Virtual Private Networks across Departments with strong Network ACLs and Firewall policies at both the Subnet and the Instance OS level.
• Good experience in troubleshooting the Virtual Private Cloud Network Peering and routing issues.
• Setup of monitoring tools like Nagios and Amazon Cloudwatch to monitor major metrics like Network packets, CPU utilization, Load Balancer Latency etc.
• Autoscaling of Web Application instances based on the Cloudwatch alarms during sudden increase in network traffic.
• Implementation of Cross Connectivity of Virtual Private Clouds (AWSVPC) across regions using OpenSwan over IPSec as part of Disaster Recovery inAWS.
• Analysis of Automated weekly Instance usage reports and choose the right instance type for applications based on the Network I/O, CPU utilization and RAM.
• Imparted training on Cloud computing inAWSto team members as well as to teams from other verticals.
• Part of a Development team that works on a custom Cloud Portal to integrateAWSAPIs for Automated Network configuration and Server/Application provisioning.
• Knowledge on Process operations like nice, renice, kill.
• Experienced working with scripting like shell, Perl and used awk, grep, find.
• Administered Linux servers for several functions include managing Apache webservers, mail server and firewalls in both development and production
• Involved in troubleshooting shell scripts.
• Configuring UNIX environments for Oracle Databases such as kernel configurations, file system layouts, oracle file configurations
• Knowledge on Administer Linux (RHEL, CentOS) administrator involved in server management
• Administrating and troubleshooting Red Hat Cluster Suites
• Wrote & automated security audit scripts in the environment.
• Knowledge of HP blades and service manager.
• Experience with storage networking, with vendors/technologies such as iSCSI, SAN/NAS, data center storage consolidation, EMC, EVA, NetApp, HDS, HP, or Supported and Good Knowledge of designing IT architectures for storage and backup in the enterprise.
• Linux (RedHat 3/4/5/6) UNIX System and Network administration in Sun Solaris (9/10), HP-UX (10.x,11.x), IBM AIX (5.x), Server Installations, configurations, upgrades and migrations on Solaris, HP- UX, Linux.
• Created RAID volumes using RAID Controllers and LSI Hardware
• Administrated server consolidation program through use of VMware ESX server and VMware Virtual Center, creating VMs, using/building VM templates and customization files, and scheduling tasks
• Prepared the strategy and implemented ESXi Migration
• Implemented the migrations of ESXi servers to ESX5.1 and to 5.5.
• Involved in Data center migration more than 200 ESX servers and large number of the windows physical servers

Environment: Cisco servers,6000 vms, 400+ ESX and ESXI hosts, Vsphere 5.0, EMC Vmax storage, cold and hot cloning, Vmotion and SVmotion configuration.

VMware/Cloud Engineer

Confidential, Phoenix, AZ

Responsibilities:

• Configured and Installed ESXi hosts and performed upgrades from 4.x and 5.x.
• Analyze and Evaluate Existing Architecture at Customer On Premise Datacenters and Design, Configure and migrate complex Network architectures toAWSPublic Cloud.
• Role of a Trusted Advisor in implementing the best solutions in Amazon Cloud.
• Key member of a Managed Services team that installs, configures and maintains Softwares, Databases and Web applications.
• Frequent interaction with customers to assist in Setup of Virtual Private Networks across Departments with strong Network ACLs and Firewall policies at both the Subnet and the Instance OS level.
• Good experience in troubleshooting the Virtual Private Cloud Network Peering and routing issues.
• Setup of monitoring tools like Nagios and Amazon Cloudwatch to monitor major metrics like Network packets, CPU utilization, Load Balancer Latency etc.
• Autoscaling of Web Application instances based on the Cloudwatch alarms during sudden increase in network traffic.
• Implementation of Cross Connectivity of Virtual Private Clouds (AWSVPC) across regions using OpenSwan over IPSec as part of Disaster Recovery inAWS.
• Analysis of Automated weekly Instance usage reports and choose the right instance type for applications based on the Network I/O, CPU utilization and RAM.
• Imparted training on Cloud computing inAWSto team members as well as to teams from other verticals.
• Part of a Development team that works on a custom Cloud Portal to integrateAWSAPIs for Automated Network configuration and Server/Application provisioning.
• Experience in Logical Volume Manager for creation of Volume groups / Logical Volumes and File systems in UNIX environment.
• Experience in creating physical volume, logical volume, volume groups using LVM’s in Linux.
• Advanced knowledge and skills in Linux Operating System, High Availability/Clustering, System Backup/Restore, Kickstart and Logical Volume Manager software products.
• Excellent in Configuring and Administering NFS, SMTP, DHCP, samba in heterogeneous environment.
• Experience with Installing and configuring RHEL 2.1, 3.0, 4.0, 5.0, 6.0.
• Linux (RedHat 3/4/5/6) UNIX System and Network administration in Sun Solaris (9/10), HP-UX (10.x,11.x), IBM AIX (5.x), Server Installations, configurations, upgrades and migrations on Solaris, HP- UX, Linux.
• Created RAID volumes using RAID Controllers and LSI Hardware
• Configured cisco UCS environment for hosting ESXI hosts and other physical servers
• Deployed virtual machines and have performed P2V migrations.
• Used VMware update manager for installing critical patches, VMware updates on ESX hosts.
• Data Center consolidation and server hardware refresh to retire old systems.
• Supported DR activity tests
• Designed and installed ESX cluster farms with multiple clusters for production, development and DRlandscapes with HA, DRS and VM backups.
• Experienced working with scripting like shell, Perl and used awk, grep, find.
• Administered Linux servers for several functions include managing Apache webservers, mail server and firewalls in both development and production
• Did the capacity planning and the physical to virtual server consolidation to achieve 78% virtualization.
• Storage consolidation by doing data classification and migrating the static data to Tier 3 storage
• Backup environment re-architecture fine tuning to save tape cost
• Delivering Linux servers both in physical and virtual machines
• RCA on issues related to VMware within the stipulated SLA time
• Monitoring and managing Brocade SAN switches
• Data center administration hosting hardware like HP ProLiant& Blade servers, DELL servers, HP Tape library, HP & DELL Storage

Environment: 700+ HP ProLiant and Dell Power edge servers, ESX and ESXI hosts, EMC VMAX storage.

Unix Systems Engineer

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Providing on line support for Sun/Linux servers in a Data Center Production Environment
• Planning, installing and configuration of operating system on new Sun/HP Servers.
• Configured System imager for Linux Servers and used it for Cloning, software distribution and OS updates.
• Installations using PXE boot, Maintenances and troubleshooting hundreds of Linux Servers.
• Adding/expanding new storage to existing/new systems using LVM, VERITAS Volume management VXVM and Vxfs on Linux/SUN servers.
• Worked on Solaris servers supporting all the OS administration, application and hardware issues.
• Very good working experience on Redhat Satellite Server upgrading and patching.
• Implemented upgrade of servers using Redhat Satellite Server.
• Planning, documenting and supporting high availability, data replication, business persistence, fail-over, fail-back using VERITAS Cluster Server in SAN environment.
• Setup NFS file systems and shared them to clients.
• Troubleshooting and configuring NAS and NFS mount points.
• Troubleshooting network, application, and server related issues.
• Scheduling of automatic repetitive Jobs, and Shell Scripts with Crontab.
• Used puppet for central management of Linux configuration files and software package management.
• Implementing RAID 0, 1 and 0+1 levels using VERITAS Volume Manager.
• Created RPM packages using RPMBUILD, verifying the new build packages and distributing the package.
• Assisted in P2V and V2V conversion of Linux server’s editions using enterprise VMware standalone converter and also installed the VMware tools on that machines,
• Assisted in Migration Projects moving the servers from legacy environments to newly commissioned clustersin new virtual centers
• Job also includes creating templates and deploying Virtual Machines through templates, cloning VirtualMachines and managing Virtual Center permissions
• Creation of templates from VMs and Creation of VMs from templates
• Interacts directly with executive level management for internal tasks and projects
• Design and implement systems, network configurations, and network architecture, including hardware andsoftware technology, site locations, and integration of technologies.
• Test, maintain, and monitor computer programs and systems, including coordinating the installation of computer programs and systems.

Environment: 100+ HP servers running windows 08 + Linux servers, ESX 4 and 5 hosts, XenApp, VAPPS, vCenter configuration, HA, DRS, vMotion and FT maintenance, P2V migrations, vMotion and Storage vMotion configuration.

Linux Administrator

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Installation and Configuration of Linux and win2k higher end & Midrange servers.
• Installation, Configuration and Administration of ESX 3.5, ESX 4.0 Servers.
• Creating and managing Virtual Machines, Installing VM Tools into VM’s and allocating for end User.
• Creating and managing Resource Pools and adding the VM’s into Resource pools.
• Creating templates from VM’s and deploy VM’s from templates and allocate resources.
• Creating monthly and weekly reports regarding storage, memory, CPU usage and summary of the vm’s sent to site in charge.
• Coordinating with Vendors for any critical hardware problems till the problem gets resolved.
• Creating and Managing User Accounts & Groups.
• Disk Partitioning using Logical Volume Manager (LVM).
• Scheduled various regular, periodic queue tasks by using crontab, at.
• Install the packages with YUM & RPM.
• Installation of new software as per the requirements
• Installation and upgradation patch’s in Linux.
• Adding and Configuring Peripheral Devices to the System.
• Configuring project related applications and tools.
• Monitoring File System use and growth.
• Administration of file and directories with basic file permissions.
• Taking System backup and recovery Using tar, dump, cpio
• Configured network services such as NFS, DNS, SAMBA and NIS
• Monitoring system performance. Problem/Change Management:
• Creating, scheduling and implementing a change request as per agreed SLA time.
• Creating, Resolving and closing the Problem ticket as per agreed SLA time.
• Attending Change Management Review Meeting on behalf of my team on a rotational basis.